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of the Christ. Church, p. 963. 2. In a more specific sense: ( at ) The alienation to laymen or to common purposes of that which has been appropriated or consecrated to religious persons or uses. ( b ) The felonious taking of any goods out of any church or chapel. In old English law these significations of sacrilege were legal terms, and the crimes represented by them were for some time punished by death; in the latter sense the word is still used. Syn. Desecration , etc. See profanation . sacrilegert (sak'ri-lej-ėr), n. [ sacrele ger ; sacrilege + -er2.] A sacrilegious person; one who is guilty of sacrilege. The king of England [Henry VIII.], who me he [the Pope] had decreed an here tike, scismatike, a wedlocke breaker, a public murtherer, and a sacrileger . Holinshed , Chron., Hist. Scotland, an. 1535. sacrilegiet, n. A Middle English form of sac rilege. A sacrist or treasurer are not dignitaries in the church of common right, but only by custom. Ayliffe , Parergon. The cellarer, the sacrist , and others of the brethren, dis appointed in the expectation they had formed of being out of the monastery. Strutt , Sports and Pastimes, p. 273. 2. A person retained in a cathedral to copy out music for the choir and take care of the books. with mirthful performances, turned He would find Gervase, the sacrist , busy over the chroni cles of the kings and the history of his own time. Stubbs , Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 145. sacristan (sak'ris-tan), n. [ sacrist ane , sacrist a in , also seg retain , secret a in , sou cretain, F. sacrist a in = Pr. sacristan , sagrestan = Sp.sacristan = Pg. sacristão = It. sag rest a no , sacristan us ; usually sacrist a , a sacristan, sexton: see sacrist . Cf.sexton , a contracted form of sacristan .] An officer of a church or monastery who has the charge of the sacristy and all its contents, and acts as custodian of the other ve els, vestments, and valuables of the church. The term sacristan has become corrupted into sexton, and these two names are sometimes used interchangeably. The sacristan , as distinguished from the sexton , however, has a more responsible and elevated office. In the Roman Catholic Church the sacristan dur ing ma attends in a surplice at the credence-table and a ists by arranging the chalice, paten, etc.; in some continental cathedrals he is a dignitary, and in the English cathedrals usually a minor canon. The Sacristan shew'd us a world of rich plate, jewells, and embroder'd copes, which are kept in pre es. Evelyn , Diary, March 23, 1646. The Sacristan and old Father Nicholas had followed the Sub-Prior into the Abbot's apartment. Scott , Monastery, xxxiv. sacrilegious (sak-ri-lē'jus), a . [ sacrilege (L. sacrilegium) + -ous .] Guilty of or involving sacrilege; profane; impious: as, sacrilegious acts; sacrilegious hands. Thou hast abus'd the strictne of this place, And offer'd sacrilegious foul disgrace To the sweet rest of these interred bones. Still green with bays each ancient altar stands, Above the reach of sacrilegious hands. Pope , E ay on Criticism, 1. 182. =Syn. See profanation . sacrilegiously (sak-ri-lē'jus-li), adv . In a sacrilegious manner; with sacrilege. sacrilegiousne (sak-ri-lē'jus-nes), n. character of being sacrilegious. the sacrum, + cauda , tail: see caudal .] Sacrococcygeal; urosacral. sacrococcygeal (sā"krō-kok-sij'ē-al), a . [ sa crococcygeus + -al .] 1. Of or pertaining to the sacrum and the coccyx; sacrocaudal.-2. In ornith ., pertaining to that part of the sacrarium sacrum sacro-ischiac, sacro-ischiadic, sacro-ischiatic (sā-krō-is'ki-ak, -is-ki-ad'ik, -is-ki-at'ik), a . Pertaining to the sacrum and to the ischium; sacrosciatic. sacrolumbal (sā-krō-lum'bal), a . [L. sacrum , the sacrum, + lumbus , loin. Cf. sacrolumbar . ] Pertaining to the sacrolumbalis; sacrilumbar: as, the sacrolumbal muscle. sacrolumbalis (sā krō-lum-bā'lis), n .; pl. sacro lumbales (-lēz). [NL.: see sacrolumbal .] The smaller and outer section of the erector spinæ, in man inserted by six tendons into the angles of the six lower ribs. Also called iliocostalis , sacro lumbar is , and lumbocostalis . In the dorsal or thoracic re gion of man this muscle acquires certain acce ory fasciculi known in the text-books of human anatomy as musculus acce orius ad sacrolumbalem . sacrolumbar (sā-krō-lum'bär), a . [ L.sacrum , the sacrum, + lumbus , loin: see lumbar1 .] 1. Pertaining to sacral and lumbar vertebræ; lumbosacral: as, the sacrolumbar muscle; sacro lumbar ligaments.—2. Combining or representing the characters of sacral and lumbar parts: as, sacrolumbar vertebræ; sacrolumbar ribs. Also sacrilumbar . sacrolumbaris (sā krō-lum-bā'ris), n.; pl. sa crolumbares (-rēz). [NL.: see sacrolumbar . ] Same as sacrolumbalis . sacromedian (sā-krō-mē ́di-an), a . [ L.sacrum , the sacrum, + median us , median.] Running along the median line of the sacrum: said of an artery. See sacra2 . - Sacromedian artery. Same as middle sacral artery. See sacral . sacropubic (sā-krō-pū'bik), a . [ L.sacrum , the sacrum, + pubes , the pubes: see pubic .] Per-> taining to the sacrum and to the pubes; pubosacral: as, the sacropubic diameter of the pelvis. sacrorectal (sā-krō-rek'tal), a . [ L. sacrum , the sacrum, + rectum , the rectum.] Pertaining to the sacrum and the rectum. - Sacrorectal hernia, a hernia pa ing down the ischiorectal fo a and appearing in the perineum, protruding between the prostate and rectum in the male, and between the vagina and rectum in the female. sacrosanct (sak'rō-sangkt), a . [= F.sacrosaint = Sp. Pg. sacrosanto = It. sacrosanto , sagro santo , sacrosanct us , inviolable, sacred, sacer , sacred, + sanctus , pp. of sancire , fix unalterably, make sacred: see saint1 .] Preëminently or superlatively sacred or inviolable. The Roman church infallible. makes itself so sacrosanct and